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Real… luckily they can just hop the border into Vancouver - not as safe as Europe or east Asia, but certainly an easier ask. I wonder if they have any dedicate

• perihelions 1y ago
  > "not as safe as Europe" French spooks once detained a randomly-chosen Wikipedia admin and coerced them into using their credentials to delete an article (about French spooks), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503354 ("French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into deleting a Wikipedia Article (wikimedia.fr)" (2013)—191 comments)
• lenerdenator 1y ago
  I wouldn't put it past the Canadian government to do the same thing. Other Anglosphere governments already have, see Australia and UK.
• bawolff 1y ago
  > I wonder if they have any dedicated compute stateside, tho… Wikipedia has data centers in Virginia, texas and san francisco. (They also have some in other countries)